Ohio · Nonprofit
THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI
THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,701,956 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($433,584). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $802k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $118k
What The Columbus Council on World Affai does
Mission
To create engaged global citizens, leaders, and changemakers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In partnership with school districts from across the region, ccwa delivers an experiential approach to global education via the global scholars diploma program. Throughout the course of the three-year program, high school students communicate and collaborate face-to-face with global community partners, businesses, civic leaders, and people of varying cultural backgrounds.
$527,749 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $527,749.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $396k to $171k (−57%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 90% · 2021 76% · 2022 57% · 2023 6% · 2024 21% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Sebastian Ibel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $182k → $204k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 26% · 2019 22% · 2020 27% · 2021 29% · 2022 31% · 2023 47% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
47% of THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $700k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI?
- THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,701,956 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($433,584). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,701,956 in grants to THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $433,584 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing